Do you have any idea what it takes to run a Wordpress service at scale in a way that doesn’t get the host rooted every ten seconds?
You have little idea what you are talking about for somebody so dismissive.
You have little idea what you are talking about for somebody so dismissive.
If you need another example, look at https://dev.to/ for a fantastic blog UX, and it's open-source so Medium can just copy it for free and end up with a better product.
While WordPress still dominates large areas of the web, they have a decentralized model vs medium. It's like comparing scaling web forums to reddit ("why do they have so many outages? All they do is store text!"), but reddit obviously has a way higher load than any single forum. I'd wager the same is true for medium.
To continue on with the metaphor, medium, like reddit, is solving a different problem than the wordpress/squarespace model: you don't have to roll your own. You get a built in audience due to centralization and the cache of the site (For some reason I associate a medium link as being more legit than seeing a WordPress hosting site. Strange, but better branding I guess.)
Scale is differently, but again there are plenty of sites with far more complex usage and data that took much less to create and run. Stackoverflow being that example.